• Carefully planning is required to minimize conflicts and foster compatibilities among uses
• This planning process is termed marine spatial planning,
• MSP has been developed worldwide from coastal to open-ocean regions
• It focus as a way to foster sustainable ocean management and governance.

• Marine scientists face a challenge of synthesizing and communicating information from large and complex data sets.
• Growth in data and advance in computational, can make the process of communicating the results to decision makers in a meaningful way.
• The traditional approach of presenting information across a series of static slides and plots often fails to convey the richness of information available.

• The institute of Marine Sciences developed the Tanzania Sensitivity Atlas
• IMS also involved in developing the African Marine Atlas

• Static
• Difficult to update

• Interactive maps
• Interactive plots
• engage users and stakeholders
• easy to update the information
• backend serve as database

• ocean management requires the integration and analysis of large and diverse data sets
• reproducible, and collaborative tools are needed to analyze, visualize, and update data in an efficient and cost-effective manner.
• Overcome the inherited challenge of traditional static outputs (e.g., tables, figures, reports, maps)+

• Interactive plots combined with spatial tools are effective way to communicate information used to inform decision-making processes such as

  • stock assessment,
  • ecosystem approaches to fisheries management,
  • conservation planning, and
  • marine spatial planning.

• Interactive tools allows
  • The audience to interact with data and data products,
  • users to control over type of information
  • Users to download, filter, and re-plot the data to their desired test
  • Provide room to work in a more open and transparent manner.

• R programming language has grown into a software that offers tools to build interactive tools for effective communication
• These web apps web applications are increasingly being used to explore research interactively.

• Flexdashboard—R package provides structure and containers where information will be placed

• Plotly— This package supports the creation of interactive graphics

• Shiny —

• Crosstalk—the package enables cross-widget interactions by linking, brushing, and/or filtering across multiple views.

# A tibble: 32 x 1
   landing        
   <chr>          
 1 Bandari Shamba 
 2 Banja          
 3 Bwejuu         
 4 Changarama     
 5 Chole          
 6 Kibila Mkunguni
 7 Kibuyuni       
 8 Kichevi        
 9 Kiega          
10 Kifinge        
# ... with 22 more rows

               Name
1              Boza
2            Bwejuu
3             Bweni
4          Chemchem
5             Dunda
6              Jaja
7           Jibondo
8              Jojo
9             Juani
10            Kanga
11            Kaole
12            Kiasi
13         Kiechuru
14        Kilindoni
15         Kiomboni
16         Kipingwi
17     Kisiju Pwani
18        Kivinja A
19             Koma
20            Kondo
21           Kuruti
22            Kwale
23          Mapinga
24 Mbwela Mashariki
25          Mchungu
26          Mfisini
27       Mlingotini
28        Nyamisati
29          Nyororo
30            Pande
31           Pombwe
32     Pombwe Kubwa
33           Pongwe
34             Ruma
35           Salale
36      Simbaulanga

• The marine planning efforts should be flexible and adaptive to potential future alterations
• Regional and national policies should incorporate change to thrive in a dynamic and uncertain future.
• Regular update mechanisms must be established.